CVE-2026-57224CWE-400CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-57224

Medium · published September 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the DHCP parser in rust/src/dhcp/dhcp.rs creates stateless transactions without recording their packet direction with AppLayerTxData::for_direction(), so a sensor that observes only one direction cannot mark the unseen direction inspected or free completed transactions. The RDP parser in rust/src/rdp/rdp.rs has the same direction-state defect. The per-flow transaction list can grow without bound and cleanup repeatedly scans it, causing increasing CPU and memory consumption and eventual denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00408 · 34.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-09-19T00:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
oisf/suricata≥ 8.0.0, < 8.0.68.0.6
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 SEP 03:23Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 18 SEP 20:08Z
    Suricata dhcp: unbounded transactions in unidirectional traffic can lead to resource exhaustion
    cvelistv5